10 fails found in Apple Maps

It looks like iPhone and iPad owners aren't happy with the new Apple Maps, which replaces Google Maps in iOS 6. We cannot blame them, given the number of flaws that have been exposed already, such as the inaccurate or incomplete information and poorer imaging data when compared to Google's alternative.

To no surprise, the app has been getting tons of negative reviews across the interwebs, despite looking flashy with its 3D renderings of major cities.

But while some imperfections in Apple Maps can be ignored, others cannot be overlooked that easily. In fact, some of them are well worthy of a FAIL label, such as the ones we are sharing with you today. Do you know of a flaw that we should have included on our list of 10 Apple Maps fails? Then just let us know by dropping a comment below and we will surely check it out!

Airfield Park, located in south Dublin, has been mistakenly labeled as an airport, judging by the presence of a plane symbol on top of it. The airport is actually located on the other side of the city.

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Maps in some areas do not look as good as they should, with stiched together pieces of different resolutions. Some image data is in black & white.

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The capiral of Ukraine is Kiev, also spelled Kyiv, but the name has been misspelled as Kylv in Apple Maps.

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Identically, the English city of Doncaster is labeled as "Duncaster" in Apple Maps. Thankfully, even if the name is entered properly, the user will be taken to the right location, despite the typo.

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No, Sears Tower in Chicago has not shrunk. It is just that the label has been given to the wrong building. (UPDATE: Now fixed.)

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The Helsinki railway station has been turned into a park, obviously, or at least that is what Apple Maps is leading us to believe.

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If you search for London, without adding "UK" to the query, you will be taken to London, Canada, instead of the London you're most likely looking for. (UPDATE: Seems to be working fine now.)

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Good luck finding your way in Japan. Very important places of interest are not showing up in the search results, even when they are clearly shown on the map.

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Public transportation information is unreliable. Searching for Paddington station in London, for example, takes you to Paddington Street, which isn't near.

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Not everything is where it is supposed to be. The city of Viterbo, Italy, for example, is shown about 10 miles south of its actual location.

Airfield Park, located in south Dublin, has been mistakenly labeled as an airport, judging by the presence of a plane symbol on top of it. The airport is actually located on the other side of the city.

10 Apple Maps fails

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Airfield Park, located in south Dublin, has been mistakenly labeled as an airport, judging by the presence of a plane symbol on top of it. The airport is actually located on the other side of the city.

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Maps in some areas do not look as good as they should, with stiched together pieces of different resolutions. Some image data is in black & white.

3.

The capiral of Ukraine is Kiev, also spelled Kyiv, but the name has been misspelled as Kylv in Apple Maps.

4.

Identically, the English city of Doncaster is labeled as "Duncaster" in Apple Maps. Thankfully, even if the name is entered properly, the user will be taken to the right location, despite the typo.

5.

No, Sears Tower in Chicago has not shrunk. It is just that the label has been given to the wrong building. (UPDATE: Now fixed.)

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The Helsinki railway station has been turned into a park, obviously, or at least that is what Apple Maps is leading us to believe.

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If you search for London, without adding "UK" to the query, you will be taken to London, Canada, instead of the London you're most likely looking for. (UPDATE: Seems to be working fine now.)

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Good luck finding your way in Japan. Very important places of interest are not showing up in the search results, even when they are clearly shown on the map.

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Public transportation information is unreliable. Searching for Paddington station in London, for example, takes you to Paddington Street, which isn't near.

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Not everything is where it is supposed to be. The city of Viterbo, Italy, for example, is shown about 10 miles south of its actual location.

iRay S. where are you now? Your beloved iOS needs you to defend it from this epic failure! For all the people here in PA, you are the only one who truly understands the greatness of iOS 6. Please enlighten us with your fanboyish and biased wisdom and tell us that this is not true!!!

In Manchester, England it labels an area the Gay Village. I've got no issue with that as that's what the area is called, but (as far as I'm aware) it's not an official name for the area it's just what people call that area. Are maps allowed to label areas by what local residents call them or should they go by their official names?

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21.ilia1986 (unregistered)

No.

When a company introduces a new feature and it's buggy - it's excusable.

When a company introduces a new feature which replaces an existing feature just because of the fact that the old feature was provided by that company's rival - so they decide to replace it because of their sheer egoism - and the new feature turns buggy - it's a blatant disregard for consumer needs.

23.ilia1986 (unregistered)

Nope it's not, but do u honestly expect apple not to address these issues with future updates and fix it. C'mon... Apple released a brand new from the ground up map app, with no prior experience in the field, they will get it rite with a few updates and it'll b all good.

Have you read your comment? I think you would even thumb it down yourself if you re-read it.

Not only we're you wrong when you said "these locations aren't even in the US", but you flipped off every one of you fellow iOS users outside of the US. You didn't really think people would LIKE that, did you?

so what is the point of launching something that is totally pathetic and not even complete NOT launching a stable and correct stuff shows how incompetent Apple is becoming now they should have taken atlest 4 years to refine it

Issue's with apples mapping system should absolutely b expected at this time with it being brand new. My evo 4g from when I was with sprint had several issues with google maps, updates to care of it. Any Samsung android user on Tmobile that had the vibrant will be able to tell u how google maps failed to work properly for quite sometime, but updates took care of it. When google maps first launched or when I first remember using it on the my touch 3G it wasn't too hot, but updates took care of it. My point, and the keyword here is updates. Apple is very good about updates to their platform, and u can bet they will have maps purring along n due time. Google maps rules but remember it had its infancy too, but it grew up.

While I agree that google maps work well with google now (for those that have it), Nokia's maps link directly from not only the Local Search, Public Transport, and Drive apps, but also the Bing search app (which, of course, can be voice-controlled), as well as offering the excellent City Lens functionality. All Nokia needs is a StreetView type program and google will have nothing on them. Plus, offline availability is wonderful, no worries about network connectivity or data consumption!

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